Carnaval in Brazil s Northeast
Objective
As a result of this lesson, students will be able to:
- Describe Carnaval celebrations in Brazil’s Northeast (Nordeste).
- Compare and contrast Carnaval celebrations in Olinda, Bezerros, and Salvador
Material
Activities
- Divide the class into groups giving each group one of the student handouts: Carnaval in Olinda (1), Carnaval in Olinda (2),Carnaval in Bezerros, and Carnaval in Salvador, Bahia.
- As a group, direct students to read the interview making a list of the main ideas.
- In the same groups, direct students to discuss what they have learned until each person understands and can explain the information.
- Reorganize the groups so that each group contains one student who has read each interview.
- Direct each student to explain to the new group what s/he has learned.
- After each student has spoken, ask student in the new groups to discuss similarities and differences of Carnavals in Olinda, Bezerros and Salvador.
- Extension activity
- If Internet access is available assign students to work in groups of to gather further information about the Carnavals using the urls listed in the handouts. (Teacher’s Note: Some sites are only in Portuguese; however, if the teacher encourages students to look for cognates (words that are very similar in Portuguese and English, like foto and photo), they can gather some basic information and find interesting pictures.
- As a whole class, ask students to share the information they have learned about the cities and Carnavals in the three towns.
- If the classroom possesses the capability, students should be encouraged to include a PowerPoint presentation to accompany their group presentations.
